Idioms

prick up one's ears
to listen more closely (like an animal moving its ears to hear better)
I pricked up my ears and listened to what the speaker was saying.

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  • pride and joy
  • pride oneself on/in (something)
  • prime mover
  • privy to something
  • promise (someone) the moon
  • prone to (something)
  • proof is in the pudding/proof of the pudding is in the eating
  • propose a toast
  • prove to be (someone or something)
  • provided that (something is so)
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  • have (something) hanging over one's head
  • salt of the earth
  • to the last
  • spook (someone)
  • raise a stink about (something)
  • blow (something)
  • hold down (someone or something)
  • give it to (someone) straight
  • pave the way for (someone or something)
  • easy to come by


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